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    The Bhagavata Purana (Sanskrit: भागवतपुराण; IAST: Bhāgavata Purāṇa), also known as the Srimad Bhagavatam (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam), Srimad Bhagavata Mahapurana...
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    The Devi Bhagavata Purana (Sanskrit: देवी भागवतपुराणम्, devī bhāgavatapurāṇam), also known as the Devi Purana or simply Devi Bhagavatam, is one of the...
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    the Vayu Purana, Matsya Purana, and Aditya Upa Purana admit the Devi Bhagavata Purana as a Mahapurana, whereas the Padma Purana, Garuda Purana and Kurma...
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  • Look up Bhagavata Purana in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. There are two Bhagavatas in Hindu Puranic literature: Bhagavata Purana, Krishna-related text...
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    The Padma Purana categorizes the Garuda Purana—along with the Bhagavata Purana, the Vishnu Purana and itself—as a sattva Purana (a Purana that represents...
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    seven days listening to the discourses of sage Shuka, compiled as the Bhagavata Purana under the banyan tree of Shukratal. As prophesied, the snake king Takshaka...
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    Vishnu (category Characters in the Bhagavata Purana)
    well-known of these avatars are Krishna (most notably in the Vishnu Purana, Bhagavata Purana, and Mahabharata; the latter encompassing the Bhagavad Gita), and...
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    primordial matter') and Mahamaya ('she who is beyond maya'). The Devi Bhagavata Purana and Lalita Sahasranama describe Mahadevi's numerous epithets. These...
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    refers to four Puranas which mention the Buddha in 9th position: Varaha Purana 4.2; Matsya Purana 285.6-7; Agni Purana 49.8; Bhagavata Purana X.40.22 and...
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    Abhinavagupta and Al-Biruni, academics estimate the date of origin of the Bhagavata Purana to be between 800–1000 C.E. It is impossible to accurately date Vedic...
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    Vaishnavism (section Puranas)
    the Pancharatra (Agama) texts, Naalayira Divya Prabhandham, and the Bhagavata Purana. The ancient emergence of Vaishnavism is unclear, the evidence inconsistent...
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    Krishna (category Characters in the Bhagavata Purana)
    Līlā. He is a central figure in the Mahabharata, the Bhagavata Purana, the Brahma Vaivarta Purana, and the Bhagavad Gita, and is mentioned in many Hindu...
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    believes in eternal damnation of the Tamo-yogyas in Andhantamas). The Bhagavata Purana describes Naraka as beneath the earth, similar to the western Hell...
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  • but this is not universally accepted as distinct to other three. The Bhagavata Purana is a popular and influential text in the Vaishnavism traditions. It...
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    455 Bhagavata Purana 3.12.21-22 Bhagavata Purana 4.1.13 Bhagavata Purana 6.6.24-26 Bhagavata Purana 8.13.6 Bhagavata Purana 6.18.11 Bhagavata Purana 5.24...
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    Vaishnavism. The most important texts of Shaktism, Devi Mahatmya and Devi Bhagavata Purana, revere Devi (the Goddess) as the primordial creator of the universe...
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    including the ten Dashavatara of the Garuda Purana and the twenty-two avatars in the Bhagavata Purana, though the latter adds that the incarnations...
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  • in which Krishna is regarded as Svayam Bhagavan. As stated in the Bhagavata Purana, Vishnu appeared before Vasudeva and Devaki in his divine original...
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    beings, a river on the earth and as a part of Brahma. A legend in the Bhagavata Purana describes Sarasvati as originally being one of the three wives of Vishnu...
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    born. The Brahmanda Purana mentions the names of the children of Svaha: Pavamāna, Pāvaka, and Śuci. In the Devi Bhagavata Purana, Narayana offers Narada...
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  • Hindu texts (section Puranas)
    list the Agamas as Hindu scriptures, and Dominic Goodall includes Bhagavata Purana and Yajnavalkya Smriti in the list of Hindu scriptures as well. There...
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    comments about the verses describing Vaikuntha in the text of Bhagavata Purana: In the Bhagavata, the text speaks of Vaikuntha, adorable to all the worlds...
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    description of Dvaraka during Krishna's presence there appears in the Bhagavata Purana (10.69.1-12) in connection with the sage Narada's visit: The city was...
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    the Markandeya Purana, and the Devi Bhagavata Purana. The most famous of these stories is the one mentioned in the Markandeya Purana. According to this...
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    Prakruti in this text, with legends similar to those found in the Devi-Bhagavata Purana and the Devi Mahatmya. The text is also notable for glorifying the...
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  • is described to be a sage-king and a "conqueror of cities" in the Bhagavata Purana. He takes Vaidarbhi, the daughter of the king of Vidarbha, as his wife...
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  • married to the Avanti king. (Bhagavata Purana, Canto 9, Chapter 24 (The history of Yadavas), Verses 37–40) Bhagavata Purana attests that the prince of Kekaya...
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    other Puranas (like the Brahma Purana, the Bhagavata Purana, the Matsya Purana, the Padma Purana, the Venkatacala Mahatmya of the Skanda Purana, the Vishnudharmottara...
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    destroys our sins. — Nammalvar, Tiruvaymoli, Verse 3.6.2 The Devi Bhagavata Purana also refers to the Ocean of Milk in its verses: The Bhagavan Hari sometimes...
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    translated the Bhagavata Purana (in three volumes), the Markandeya Purana (one volume), the Brahma Purana (two volumes), the Vishnu Purana (one volume)...
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